BIGREDIOWAN

ABOUT ME

About Me:Huge Husker fan, love the St. Louis Rams as well, don't give me too much crap because the Rams are getting better. lol Have just recently wanted to start getting into the home brewing process. I'm married with two twin boys.

Favorite Television Shows:Brew Masters, Deadliest Catch, American Chopper, Mythbusters, pretty much live on the Discovery Chan

Favorite Books:No Angel, Hero of the Underground

Clubs and Associations:IALEFI

Home Brewing Biography:Been doing this for a year or so with a intermediate set-up. Basic fermenter, hydrometer, temp. gauge, bottling bucket, and siphon. Secondary, kegorator set-up, fermentation chamber.

Future Brews:Brown Ale, Belgium Ale, some sort of lawnmower beer.

Primary:Nothing

Bottled:Vanilla Cream Ale

Kegged:Nothing at this time.

Gender:Male

Status:Married

City:Norwalk

State/Province:IA

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Pumpkin Ale question on 08-27-2013 at 03:14 PMIt won't get better, if anything any slight hint will disappear with time. The good thing is
now you know what to do next year and to bump up your spices. Don't do a drastic bump cause you
could overp...

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 11:58 PMWell I was going to pitch it, but then my wife stepped in with the t-shirt idea and I thought
that is this beers only chance at this point. Then I read about the bb's being steel and no
issues there a...

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 11:05 PMSo I looked at the thermometer more closely and the thermometer portion itself didn't break at
all, just the casing with the steel shot in it. We filtered the wort several times, racked it
from the br...

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 10:29 PMJust so we're clear, this is a food grade thermometer that came with the brew kit I orginally
received as a present. Those thermometers don't contain mercury and from what I understand
thermometers ha...

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 10:16 PMI forgot to add we racked it off the trub and left that in there and that's where we found the
glass.

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 10:12 PMSo what we're doing is we found all of the steel bb's so there is no issue there. We found
three large pieces of glass, but of course we are missing a few. We took a clean t-shirt, cut
it up to act as...

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 09:53 PM**** I know that's the right answer too and I spent a lot of time on this beer. Just when you
think you've figured this hobby out you get thrown a curve ball! :mad:

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 09:44 PMIt's a True Brew Floating Thermometer, from what I'm reading it has steel bb's not lead ones
correct? I agree about the glass though..........

Posted in thread: Floating Thermometer broke in wort on 08-25-2013 at 09:35 PMI'm putting this here hopefully to get more views. I just finished brewing my Pumpkin Ale and
while cooling it down my floating thermometer broke in my wort because it hit my wort chiller.
The end of ...

Posted in thread: Pumpkin something on 08-25-2013 at 08:32 PMBrewing Midwest's pumpkin extract ale as I type this. I baked 3 29 oz cans of Libby's pumpkin
puree for 30 minutes at 350 and bumped up the spices that I did last year as my bumps from last
year weren...